Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-06
sTANLEY'S MISSION.
Emin hey, the Hero He Is Going
to Rescue, if alive.


to Rescuc, ir Alive.
When Khartoum fell, and the knight
ly fanatic, Gordon, lost his life, the eyes
of the world no longer turned to the
Soudan. With the death of the hero,
the romance of the Nile was close d. So
men thought until the message of Emin
Bey, from the last British stronghold
in the heart of the Dark Continent,
appealed for help. To succor him, the
expedition now forming under Stanley
will go out. s.Ss2
Like Napoleon and other born leaders,
Gordon chose his aids well. From his
vice.regal seat above the cataracts of
the Nile he sent forth chosen lieuten-
ants to form depen dent provinces and
combat the inroads of Zebehr, Tippu
lib and the crew of slave hunters VINO
were harassing the native chiefs of the
Soudan and carrying off whole tribes
into slavery. OF these Lieutenant-Gov-
ernors. Gessi. Lupton and Emin Bey
were the ablest. ...-.
On each side of the Nile five hun.
dred miles north of the equator is the
Bahr Gazal. From this province Gessi
drove out the great slave trader, Zsbehr,
in 1878, and held it firmly till $780,
when, in an attempt to descend the
Nile to Khartoum his boat was stran d.
ed. In morass of the Nile most of the
crew died, devouring one another in
the frenzy of their hunger, and Gessi
was rescued when help came too late
to serve him. After his death, his
province was abandoned for a year,
when Lupton retook it and ruled until
he was betrayed into tie hands OF FL
Mahdi in the Summer of 1854.
Two hundred miles south of the Bahr
Gazal, on the line of the Nile, and
extending within one hundred miles OF
the equator and the great lake Victoria
Nyanza, is the province which Emin
Bey now holds and has held since 1878.
1t is separated from the Bahr Gazal by q
low.lying district, the Rohl, which has
never been fairly incorporated within
either province. The perilous naviga'
tion of the Nile, caused by its shifting
bed and rising shoals, has protected him
thus far from the attack of El Mahdi and
the other rebel chiefs. They have been
obliged to assail him by marching over.
land across the Rohl from Bahr Gazal;
And in 1885 lie met and defeated them In
decisive engagement at kimo,. near
the northern boundary OF his province.
They are now moving to attack him
again since the close o. the wet season
in October, and he is now pressed hard
by slave.hunling marauders from the
Zanzibar coast. For the cause OF civi.
lization and the repression of the slave
trade, it is OF great Importance that he
should be enabled to maintain his posi-
tion. His. little province is now the
sole refuge of the prosecuted blacks of
the Upper Nile. He has established an
orderly administration, loved and sup.
ported by his people. Under his rule
the farmers went out to their tfields un.
armed, thing unknown before in
equatorial Africa. Taxes were paid
with regularity and cheerfulness, and
the expenses Of the government were
born as privilege, and not as burden. |
been put up; at another wire-rope ferry |
over the Nile; at third bodybuilding !
yard, and the two steamboats, which |
Gordon had carried up in pieces were
there put together. At Lado, the
capital, Everything was arranged and
ordered as in big boys school. Strict
punctuality and strict discipline were
enforced. Emin said that he found this
the only way in which to rule easily
over subjects who needed the restraints
of children. There was roll.cal, a
lookup ut nightfall and curfew; a
morning hour, after which fires might
be lighted; signal for going out to
work in the fields, and SO on, all done
by bugle CALL AZ result of this
training and discipline, it is said that
there were absolutely no crimes to
punish.
A leader who could conquer, extend
and hold such domain is certainly no
ordinary man. If not Gordon, he has
surely proved himself worthy lieuten-
ant Of his chief. He is known to pos.
sess various scientific attainments, and
he can write aud write fiuently English
aud most European languages. His
private letters show that his heart is
bound up in the success of his labors in
Africa, and he refused to desert his post
when few would have remained in face
of the perils which beset him.
In one of his letter be writes: eff
die who will take this work up? think
only of that" In another, speaking of
his province after Ell Mahdi's rebellion
had gained head, lie says: "Time is
wanted, but from the seed have tried
to sow doubtless good fruit will spring |
up. If l am happy enough to see it, so |
much the better; if l ole, well, In
magnis voluisse sat est. ," A man of |
such power and temper is worth aiding, |
and it will be- an enduring honor to
Stanley and his men if by their help
Emin Bey is rescued and his free State
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